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Kodak Photo CD™ Services

How It Works
Our Kodak Photo CD System enables Gamma to transfer your photographic images, negatives and/or transparencies (film formats to 4 x 5) to a unique compact disc, Photo CD.

Photo CD offers convenient digital storage for archiving, image enhancement, presentation, distribution and other applications. Images are displayed and manipulated by many popular software programs on a computer with a CD-ROM disc drive. Images can be output as hard copy, written back to film, or used as direct output for digital prints.

Gamma's workstation provides digital scans to a Master Photo CD or the Pro CD disc utilizing Kodak's Enhanced Data Path upgrade. To utilize this upgrade to its full potential, the PhotoShop L.U.T.'s (look up tables) can be downloaded from Kodak's web site at http://www.kodak.com. A single Master Photo CD disc accommodates approximately 100 quality images; a Pro Photo CD accommodates 25 high quality images because of an additional high resolution file. Both the Master and Pro CD can be updated at a later date if at the onset they are produced with a lesser number of images.

With digital scans, the images are converted to digital information and stored on the disc in a file called the image pac. Each file in the image pac corresponds to a different image resolution ranging from the lowest base/16, to the highest, base X16. The master Photo CD has five file formats, the Pro Photo CD, designed for the more demanding user, has the standard five file formats plus one more at significantly higher resolution, base X64. Just one digital scan allows you to use an image's low resolution for positioning, then select its higher resolution for reproduction without the need for a second scan.

The following chart illustrates the image resolutions in the image pac file format.

File Size

Name

Line x Pixels

Usage

72 K	Base/16	128 x 192	Thumbnail index
288 K	Base/4	256 x 384	Low-res preview
1.13 MB	Base	512 x 768	TV resolution
4.5 MB	Base 4	1024 x 1536	HDTV resolution
18 MB	Base X16	2048 x 3072	High - res output
72 MB* available on Pro Photo CD only	Base X64	4096 x 6144	Ultra high - res output

Master Photo CD Digital Scans
From 35mm transparencies or 35mm negatives

DELUXE 24 HOUR SERVICE (reasonable quantities)

Images	1 - 24	25-49	50-74	75 +
Price each	$ 2.95	$ 2.70	$ 2.65	$ 2.50

ECONOMY 48 HOUR SERVICE (reasonable quantities)

Images	1 - 24	25-49	50-74	75-99	100 +
Price each	$ 2.00	$ 1.95	$ 1.80	$ 1.65	$ 1.50

PHOTO CD DIGITAL SCANS AT TIME OF PROCESSING

Entire uncut roll (per frame; slides or negatives)	$ 1.00
15 images minimum charge	$ 22.50

MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES

Master CD image source change (i.e. negs and slides to same disc)	$ 3.00
Append to existing disc Master	$ 3.00
Master CD disc duplication	see cd duplication

Pro Photo CD Digital Scans
From 35mm, 120 and 4 x 5 negatives or transparencies

NORMAL 24 HOUR SERVICE (reasonable quantities)

Images	1-6	7-12	13-25
Price each	$ 15.00	$ 13.00	$ 11.50

MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES

Pro CD image source change (i.e. negs and slides to same disc)	$ 5.00
Append to existing disc Pro	$ 3.00
Pro CD disc duplication	see cd duplication

OTHER PRO CD SERVICES
Slides (35mm) made from reflective or transparency originals — available only when used for Photo CD scans from prints or transparencies up to and including 16 x 20

Original copy	$ 4.25
Minimum order: each setup	$ 10.00

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We recommend that you have Adobe Photoshop software version 4.0 or higher. If you have Photoshop version 6.0 or higher, make sure the Photo CD plug-ins are installed. Learn more...

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